As Princess Celestia kept playing with her food, she took the occasional glance at her nephew who kept looking between both her, and her little sister whilst eagerly waiting in anticipation for the ‘Royal Talk’. Luna, in a fit of sheer panic, had promised him such, once they had arrived to the establishment.
"Well?" The prince asked the two expectantly "Can you tell me now?"
"Nephew." Princess Luna fiddled with the food on her plate and tried in vain to come up with the right words. "You need to understand, what you are asking us... It's not something so simple, there is a lot to take in, and a lot of history to cover. Didn't you study any of this while you were in Ponyville?"
The prince looked at his aunt with a neutral expression. "Aunty Luna, we were kids."
"Right" Luna nodded in understanding. "Well you see the subject of a herd is something quite big and beautiful…that my sister is better suited to explain to you!" Luna quickly explains, passing the responsibility and his attention to Celestia, who’s eyes widen in terror before glaring the power of the sun at her sister. "It’s all yours Tia."
"Thank you, Luna!" Celestia replies with a cold voice as she magiced up a temporary mental link with her sister. Coward
The princess of the sun then turned her attention to her nephew and cleared her throat. “Well Blueblood, you see, a herd is the name we use to describe a romantic relationship with a group of ponies. Due to our unbalanced birth ratio, often times it involves a single stallion and múltiple mares.” She goes into her teacher mode as she pointed to a group of three mares surrounding a single stallion on the far corner of the restaurant, all of which were laughing and chatting. "That, is a perfect example."
The prince turned around to look at them as Celestia continued her lecture "To start a herd, first the stallion courts a single mare, who’ll be known as the Alpha Mare. You can always recognize an Alpha Mare by the pony that stays to the right side of the stallion." The princess explained as Blueblood noticed how the mare on the right of the stallion was the closest to him and was leaning her head against his neck.
"Leaning against the neck of a stallion also proves that she is the alpha; it means that she’s willing to protect him with her life, no matter who she’s faced against. Being an alpha mare is considered a great honor when it comes to the inner circles of a herd." Luna continued as the prince turned to look at her. "To be an alpha mare, is to be an equal with your stallion when it comes time to expand the herd or when discussing decisions that effect the herd." She pointed a hoof to another group of ponies except this one looked like they were interviewing a mare, with her head kept low and another mare keeping a critical eye on her.
"A stallion in a herd is free to court other mares outside his herd, engage in dates and even going so far as to kiss the candidate for the herd, excluding the act of mating or any sort of foreplay however…"
Blueblood remembered the incident in the morning at the mention of that. So that’s what they were doing...
"…but when the moment of truth arrives, the decision must be accepted by both the alpha mare and her stallion." Luna explains as the lead mare of the group smile and nodded. The mare that was being interviewed raised her head and cheered for joy, as both mares hugged and the entire restaurant cheered from the outcome, making the princesses smile.
"That mare just got accepted into the herd, and now she can truly join in their love, and have the satisfaction of belonging to the group". Celestia commented with a caring smile before looking at her nephew. "Do you understand now Blueblood?A herd is nothing unusual it’s just a part of life here in Equestria" She wondered with a raised eyebrow.
"I think I understand, but what happens if a mare wishes to leave a herd?"
"The group would usually give her a goodbye party, to let her know that she’ll always be appreciated and loved as a friend. They would also sometimes give her some bits as a farewell gift, but if the alpha mare is the one that goes, then the herd is dissolved, and the entire group has a waiting period of six months before reforming in honor of the alpha. In that time, the parties involved can join other herds if they please, or the stallion would choose a new alpha from the previously selected mares." Luna explains. "It's a bittersweet thing to happen, but not uncommon.
Like herds with the same sex, which are rare when it comes to males herds due to the birth ratio, or a polyandry herd, which are the ones that had more than one stallion in it. Please don't ask us about how the alpha mares work there, even I get confused at times trying to unravel it." Luna begged lifting her hoof before the prince had the chance to ask.
"Ok, so in total there are three types of herds?" The prince wondered as he counted them out loud. "A normal herd of one stallion various mares, a homosexual herd which are all stallions or all mares, and a polyandrous herd which are like a regular one but with more than one stallion." He counts and his aunts nod in agreement.
"And of course there’s also the simple relationships." Celestia added.
"The simple relationships?" The prince raised an eyebrow at that comment .
"Not all ponies want or like to be in big groups nephew. So they oftentimes settle with an agreement of faithfulness to their partner and remain as a single couple." Luna answered for her sisters. "Like the Twilight Sparkle family for example." She gives him a reference, "Night Light and Twilight Velvet could have easily picked another mare, to form a group and start their herd, but their love for eachother was so great, that they decided to stay true to only one another."
"You’ve also met another couple like that Blueblood, do you recall the owners of sugar cube corner?" Celestia inquired.
"Oh yeah, nice couple, their kids were adorable too." Blueblood remembered their meeting with a smile. "Although Pumpkin really liked to put my hoof in her mouth for some reason." The prince chuckled at the memory, something his aunt soon shared.
"Well, they’re a perfect example of a simple couple too. And nowadays it's concept as common as forming a herd afterall, love is free, and it can and does take many forms in our world. So no matter the end result, Equestria will always accept any and all types of relationships on their lands." Celestia proclaimed in pride making the prince smile. "Be herds, simple or even interspecies, which is for example, a pony and a griffin".
That’s so beautiful, there’s no such thing as discrimination or intolerance here! You can truly be whoever you want to be…well perhaps being a gay male, which could be a bit hard…but that is more because of the birth ratio problem, rather than that of hatred. But overall this world seems really nice and tolerant!
"And that pretty much covers it, did you have any other question Blueblood?" Celestia wondered aloud as she looked at him.
"I don’t auntie, thank you explaining." The prince shook his head, making the sisters smile and internally sign in satisfaction, for not having to tell him the in-depth the 'birds and the bees' talk. Now more relaxed, they picked up their glasses and started to drink in peace.
"So…have you ever been in a herd or a relationship before?" Once more the prince asked innocently and just like that, their peace was once again shattered as they spat out their drinks and almost choked in the process.
"N-Nephew! T-that’s…kind of personal" Luna exclaimed in alarm and with an extreme blush as she coughed and tried to recover from the shock.
"Ah, come on, tell me! Do I have two uncles I’ve yet to meet? Do I have more aunties too? Would I meet them all on the next holiday?" The prince kept adding more questions to the princesses which only served to further increase their discomfort until Celestia came up with an idea, and smirked as she turned to her beloved sister.
"Well Blueblood, I'm afraid that’s another important subject that your aunt Luna is much more qualified to talk about." She offered with a smile as she placed her wing behind Luna’s back.
"Me?!" Luna immediately turned to her sister in shock as Celestia just lightly pushed her forward.
"Don't be so modest Lulu, go ahead. Explain to him how our situation as royals work." She coached with a caring smile. Luna slowly glared as she saw behind her sister disguise, and could clearly distinguish how she was mocking her.
"You really know how to hold a grudge, don't you sister?" Luna mentally scowled before turning to face her nephew and sigh in sadness.
"Unfortunately for us royals, the path for romance and companionship is far more complicated and often times sad". The princess’s mood dropped as she explained.
"What?" Blueblood looked at both, confused and shocked at that revelation.
"It all started with an old law made during the ruling of Princess Platinum. During that time Equestria was facing all sort of mighty foes who would stop at nothing to achieve their goal to conquer us, including harming our loved ones. So to prevent this, any ruler of Equestria would be forbidden to seek a partner or a herd and instead would be assign something called 'a royal concubine group.'"
"Ah, a concubine is…" Celestia started explaining but Blueblood stopped her by raising a hoof.
"Don't worry Aunty I know what a concubine is, but that sounds horrible!" He exclaimed in shock, Luna nodded solemnly .
"It is. It was cold, methodic and soulless. Yet it delivered its two objectives; keeping our enemies guessing and ultimately dropping the idea of seeking out our loved ones…and preserved through our bloodline." Luna mumbled with a small blush. "As well as laying a trap in case of changeling infiltration" She winks "Giving them such an enticing opportunity to spy put them right on the frog of our hooves, but that is a story for another time"
"By rotating the partners and even placing them in other herds. Our offspring could be saved in case of war. And for my sister and I, offered us a chance to hide as another mares if the worse came to happen, with a solid backstory to present. Luckily for us, we’ve never been forced to execute such plan." Celestia continued. "And rest assured, the moment Equestria found itself in peace and we were in power, we worked really hard in altering that old law."
"Alter it? Why not destroy it?" Blueblood pondered with a raised eyebrow.
"As soulless as it was, it was and still has some merit to it, and more important. Keeping those power hungry politician and nobles in their places." Luna rolled her eyes and chuckled at the memory of past love letters. "We changed the part of the government assigning us the concubines and instead; we ourselves are free to choose whoever we please."
"We also made a rule/condition that we can't take a mare or stallion from an already existing relationship, be a herd or a simple couple." Celestia continued.
"Mare or stallion?" The prince was confused for a second until he saw both of his aunts smiling with some embarrassment "Oh! I see" He smiled and chuckled. "You were not kidding when you told me that you love all of our subjects, weren’t you?"
"Nope." Both sister replied with pride.
"And finally, and this one is something we are particularly proud to add into that old law, 'If a prince or princess address his or her concubine as an alpha mare. That concubine will became a royal and obtain the same power on royalty as their partner, and the other concubines became the royal consorts.' But only after three years has passed, and the concubine has received royal training, education and examination from the guardians or parents of the prince or princess" Luna concluded.
"Ah, I get it, like our own version of a herd then?" Blueblood mentioned with a smile.
"Precisely. We might not be able to engage in a traditional relationship, but rest assure. Obtaining it is not out of our grasp." Luna responded.
"But that means that Shining Armor started as…"
"…A concubine? Technically speaking yes that was the correct term to describe him." Celestia nodded. "Yet it was a title that was short lived. Cadence and him kept their relationship a secret and were very careful when meeting up until their wedding, but it was clear as day that he was almost immediately her fiance. Shining was the love of her life and a pony that earned our respect for it, so when they came out of the shadows, we skipped some of his lessons on royalty behaviour since his time as captain covered most of the subject"
"Ah so the education training can be skip?" The prince ask with a raise eyebrow
"Only if we say so, and inspect his education levels" Luna responded with Celestia nodding in agreement
"Anyway, returning to us, even when we’ve had company in our past, neither Luna or I have found that special pony for us. We simply love all of our subjects too much. Those encounters, have been more of need instead of desire. Like an itch that only gets worse if not scratched, that’s why we’ve had to ask other races to help us with our 'itch'. We simply can't stop looking at our subjects as anything other than…well our subjects. Ponies that entrust their life and safety to us and we are more than willing to provide it." The princess finished with a sigh.
"Cadence has the same problem too, perhaps even more with her being the princess of love." Luna continued. "That’s why Shining is someone that surprised us. So far he has been the only pony thats managed to break free of the 'subject zone,' he was the only one that made her look at him as something else, something closer and more intimate. And we weren't fools, we knew our niece would never pick a jerk as a partner, so when it came time to tell us, we welcomed Shining Armor with open hooves." Luna concluded with a smile.
"Wow." That’s the only thing the prince could say to that revelation "And that means that if they wished, they could start a herd now?"
The royal sister simply shrugged. "Technically speaking they could, with Shining Armor becoming the 'alpha male' but again, getting out of the subject zone is something almost impossible to achieve. So it's very unlikely; besides I think they prefer to remain as a single couple if you ask me. And I know what you were about to say Blueblood and no, so far in all of our life, neither Luna or I have found that pony that’s made us look at him or her the same way Cadence looks at Shining Armor." Celestia responded in pity.
"Aw, but that’s so sad, are you really telling me that you’ve never once felt that kind of love?"
Luna started to chuckle and brought her hoof to her muzzle. "Oh I wouldn't say never, Tia used to had such a big crush for our magic teacher when we were younger."
"Lulu!" Celestia turned to her with a blush.
"Oh don't try to deny it, Tia, you always drew his face and put a heart around it in your notebook each time we had lessons together with him."
Celestia smirked and crossed her front hooves. "That’s rich coming from the mare that kisses a signed poster of Flash Magnus each day before going to bed."
Luna’s eyes immediately widened and with a blush glared at her sister. "That poster was a gift from you Tia."
"Which I gave you, so you could stop spying on the poor stallion during his sparring sessions." She argued back with a roll of her eyes. "Honestly Lulu, I was starting to fear you would follow him into the showers."
"Oh like you were so innocent back there 'I just thought I dropped my pen under your desk Mr. Starswirl'." Luna mocked her, doing a poor impersonation of her sister.
The prince just laughed at their argument until he found his plate was now empty "Well I think I’ll go fill my plate!" He informed them and prepared to leave, until Luna stopped him.
"Nephew, before you go there is one more thing we need to tell you. This might sound cold and unfair but the rules of royal partners includes you too. Maybe even stronger since you’re our only direct descendant which means, that other rulers could potentially demand that you marry their offspring as an offering of peace and friendly relationships."
"Which I would do all in my power to prevent." Celestia added angerly " I will not whore my family off for a deal, not even if it guarantees peace for Equestria." She said to him with complete determination, before looking to him in worry. "Yet, its not an impossible outcome, unfortunately."
"And that is why we need to tell you. No, insist for you to remember. We will not oppose the idea of you seeking romantic partners, we even encourage it, but we ask you to please, if it arises, to be careful and stay alert. A lot of noble mares would love the chance to be a princess and take advantage of you and unfortunately… Celestia and I just can’t just kill them all." Luna warned to him.
The Prince gulped and nervously chuckled at that "Y-you are joking, right?"
Luna kept silent with a smile for a bit, before slowly nodding "Yeah…joking" She respond, averting her eyes from him before talking again "You can always break up with them and remove their status, however there are potential dangers that they could create, so be on high alert and remember to keep that in mind, ok nephew? " She finished by giving him a relaxed smile which only served to make things even more scary.
"I-I will aunt Luna, I promise to be extremely careful if I ever find that special mare for me." He nodded in determination.
"Good, that’s calmed me down...now you’re free to go." Luna nodded to let him go as she and Celestia continued to talk.
As the prince advanced to the salad bar, he thought very carefully about everything he’d just heard.
Things here are so different from that on earth...It’s almost ironic, that the ones that make the rules are also the ones that have the most difficulty in finding true love? Will that happen to me? Aght!
The prince held his head in pain with one of his hooves.
Thinking of all these rules is really making my head hurt. Maybe I should just stay away from the subject altogether, after all, it’s not like I find any mare attractive… I haven't gone full native yet
The prince simply chuckled as he reached the bar and was about to grab some mashed potato when his hoof accidentally touched somepony else, reaching for the same.
"Oh sorry I wasn't paying attention, please go…ahead?" The prince apologised as he turned around, until, he got a good look at the mare in front of him, which left him shocked and confused.
She looks just like…
"My, what a gentlestallion." The mare chirped with a small smile as she served some food onto her plate. "And what a surprise it is finding you here, your highness, the palace food starting to get too dull for your tastes?" She joked around with a smirk on her muzzle.
"Ah, n-no. It’s nothing like that miss, my family and I were just experimenting with some new food, that’s all." The prince commented, now more relaxed, making the mare giggle for a bit.
"There’s nothing bad with experimenting a little from time to time, is there?" The mare replied with a wink as she offered her hoof to the Prince, "And please your highness, just call me Scarlet."
I hope you subvert expectations and don't do what I think you are going to do here
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Depends on what you think I'm planning,
Interesting info there.
Keep it up
Scarlett is definitely lust. I feel scared for Blue Bloods Chasity.
Scarlet huh interesting
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That the "Noble" manipulator tricks him into referring to her as his marefriend and leverages it into becoming royalty.
Hmmm......I smell a setup.....just after he had the 'talk' he met someone.......way to convenient.
Lot's of errors in this one, but otherwise a good chapter for exposition. Did Luna learn about and tell Celestia how relationships work on Earth, or are they just assuming that New Blood would find the polyamory weird if they didn't know about his planet's culture? Or maybe polyamory is specific to ponies and even other races like griffons, yaks, changelings(?), etc. find pony relationships weird.
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Yeah sorry for that my editors, have being having some minor problems here and there, so they couldn't watch over this chapter that closely, next one will be different I promise
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As for the question. Luna knows he is human but she doesn't know how relationship work on Earth. So that is why they were scare into how they could explain everything to him as calm as possible.
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yeah, I've been busy trying to take care of the old chapters. I'll mark this chapter for editing later on, when I finish all the old stuff.
In the meantime, we still have some other editors trying hard for LightingAce in the new ones.
Twilight's father is name NIGHT LIGHT, not this magnus. http://mlp.wikia.com/wiki/Twilight_Velvet_and_Night_Light Anyways Blue with his 2 guards! prefectr herd... of course who would be the Alpha?
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Ops must have heard in another fic, where the author call him Magnus, thanks for that. Already change it
May not be important but males horses in the wild sometimes form Bachelor herds. The stallions group together, presumably for the safety benefits of a herd, and generally exhibit more calm and peaceful attitudes.
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Hey, that is one interest thing. Thanks for mention it
9214581 Yeah, it's a set-up, but not by the Royal sisters. We've seen this mare in previous chapters, the worst sort of power hungry 'noble' that he should avoid.
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Thanks but I can't take all the credit, my editors have help me a lot making this chapters more and more enjoyable for you to read. I'm glad that you enjoyed the chapter
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Thanks
Why do i have the feeling he is totally gonna get scammed by this or some other chick? There was heavy foreshadowing last chapter so i excpect him to f up
Scarlet Gold digger.
The royal dating law is stupid. Any halfway decent foreign spy would be able to see the truth and read between the lines to use them as pawns for negotiations. Also, codifying a relationship status that is an extremely fluid and emotional thing seems silly. Hell a changeling spy could just read the true emotions regardless of the use of word mare friend or not.
I'm fine with herds and all that jazz. I just think the delivery could be a lot better.
First, unless he got a LOT of amnesia, every human knows what a herd is, at least on the animal side. He might express surprise that Equestrian herds have this system, after seeing single couples, but not "what's that?"
The discussion should have been a more relaxed inquiry on the cultural impact of herds, not the concept itself.
Second, it... wasn't all that natural feeling. Especially this part:
Now, I firmly believe in tolerance and everything like that. But this is not the integration-into-a-story tolerance. This is the beat-the-concept-over-your-head kind of integration. And I immediately get repulsed by that, even when I agree with everything being said.
Finally, there's one more thing. It's less a complaint that should be fixed, and more one of my pet peeves. I'm somewhat of a love enthusaist. I tend to get miffed whenever Cadence is massively misrepresented. I believe friendship is a form of love, and all that jazz.
I love when Celestia and Luna get characterized as sisters as well, and not just immortal goddesses. It's why I loved that scene in Slice of Life. Humanizing moments are the best.
But making Celestia and Luna into some sort of sex-crazed teenagers is practically unforgivable. Calling sexual urges "needs" is funny in a meme, but really stupid whenever it's used seriously.
I'm a young adult. I know how strong urges are. But these ponies are anything but young adults. Yes, they can love. Yes, they can enjoy sex. But this... this is almost as bad as calling sex itself love. It's like saying that if you aren't actively hunting down a girlfriend, you must be gay. That you have to be asexual to decide that you don't want to go out and marry.
Anyway, sorry for the rant. I probably will enjoy the rest of this story, and it takes a lot for me to give up on something. The biggest thing, though, was the... lackluster delivery. One of my favorite stories of all time had a brief period in its beginning where there was this "sex-crazed Princesses" trope. But it wasn't enough to completely turn me away, since it didn't break immersion.
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Its ok and I appreciated the comment, sorry if my deliver was more than poor and more in the nose sort of thing.
For the herd subject, believed or not. It wasn't until I start reading fimfics that I even heard the expression, so you would be surprise actually.
For the 'needs' thing I'm not saying they are sex crazy. I'm saying they are lonely and crave company. Like any other human being would, because they are not hermits. And they most likely have it worse since not only they have the law, but also the image to preserve, and their immortality. So yeah, I imagine those two, specially Celestia must feel very lonely at times, and could wish for some interaction at least once or twice. I'm not saying that they don't engage of that all the time, I'm just saying that like any other human being you could feel lonely. So it's more or less a way to relief stress.
The bickering of the two was mostly when they were teenagers, that crazy years where your head is a bit crazy, so of course they could act a bit…well like that, but now they are more stable.
As for the mental comment. Yeah that was totally my bad, I was just wanted to show that Equestria is very open to love in any forms and any type of companionship is accepted, not only sex but the concept of love. Sorry if I was 'too on the nose with that one'
I'm almost expecting him to mess up and get scammed but then I remembered he's played 'the game' before in his previous life. Granted, business and romance are different but I'm sure he might have been in his fair share of failed relationships before(no thanks to his dad no doubt) since he thought Scarlet reminded him of someone.
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No worries. If the chapter were to be rewritten, it would be nice to imply that a little more, so people don't get the wrong idea. But I really don't expect you to do all that.
The reason I took it the wrong way was especially due to this quote:
This, paired with some of the other concepts that were a bit less subtle in the chapter, gave that impression that I've heard from so many people. Often using that exact phrase.
It doesn't help that the Sisters quite often ignore their own needs for friendship until it blows up in their face. So my brain jumped to the conclusion that they ignored their friendship and (real) socialization part of their needs, yet found enough time for lovers? And the lack of friendship usually means that said lovers are more of the "concubine" level of personability.
Of course, having this messed up view of things actually would be an interesting concept and opportunity for Princess character development, but I didn't see anything that would label this attitude as obviously wrong in the story. Thus, my mind went to the further conclusion that this is what was "right" in this Equestria.
I know now that this is not what you intended. I'm just putting this out there so that you could see my thought processes and why someone would come to those conclusions.
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I see, yeah that is good, and yeah once my editors manage to reach that chapter, with any luck we can see that part more carefully and phrase it better. Thanks for pointing it out, once the better edited version comes out, I will cross my fingers in hope that the message is more clear
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I would offer to help edit (I like doing that anyway), but I already have too many stories to keep up with to risk taking on another (then possibly get hit with a backlog when they all update at once ).
But thanks for taking it into consideration! I didn't think about the editing stage as a way to revise things like that (since when I usually edit, it's before the release). Anyway, you took the criticism extremely well, especially when I was in the more rant-y mood.
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Its always import to listen constructive criticism right?
Drama alert shits gonna hit the fan in the next few chapters
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Then my job is done
She moves quick, but seemingly not quick enough. I assume she was hoping to get to him before the explanation on royal prerogative.
And the snake in the grass makes her move.
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Jeje yeah, first impressions with her can be a bit scary, but its gets better in the next chapter, a lot of people even like it. And don't worry the 4th wall breaking is explain
The way that law was explained makes me kind of nervous, specifically the part where all he has to do is call somepony his mare friend once and shes instantly royalty if she agrees.
I don't really know how to say it other than, it feels like it doesn't fit in with the story since its an easy way to screw things over with a single sentence and there's not really any more elaboration on it. Like is it not counted if hes drunk? If its suspected he was pressured? If hes under the influence of magic? or even drugs?
That piece of the law REALLY does not seem like something the Princesses would leave in after reviewing it.
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Hmmm you know after analysed it carefully. You are right. That kind of law is very simple and easy to exploit I will have to change it a bit
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There you go, I alter it a little bit more so is not that easy, and could make more sense in the story, thanks for your input
I'm calling it now Scarlet is the embodiment of Lust.
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It becomes irrelevant whether there are eleven editors alongside the use of Grammarly and GDocs if the product is still as rough as #40 grit sandpaper. If there are editors, I blame them for the lack of quality grammar.
I have placed it on my read-it-later shelf to possibly return after a year. I just hope the author improves and revises the currently available chapters.
That was a very fast 100k words....
Well looking forward to morw
Did you imply that Celestia and Luna bucked Shining Armor? I am not cool with that.
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Nope, it appear that I didn't describe it correctly. What I meant to say, was that Shining Armor title was that because the law required to be. But other than that, it was just that. A tittle, one that was short lived, and just as long as the law demanded to be.
Shining never had that kind of relationship with the two of them.
Hope that clarify things
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That's a load of my mind. I will say that with all the editing help you've been getting, I only see typos and missing words here and there, and not errors so bad that I can't tell what's going or or misinterpret the situation. Except for this one instance.
Overall, you have a solid story, and it's obvious you know where it's going. Really good job.
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Thanks
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Are we sure isn't 'obsession'?
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No that would be Starlight
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I am currently fixing the first half of the story. I've gotten as far as A Blue Sunset, but progress is progress.
Give it two weeks, and you should be able to start reading again without a huge chunk of grit stuck in your throat.
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or... you could pm Ace about it. I mean, he normally has no problems asking for help.
Plus... I'm sort of alone on the first chapters project. I actually need the help.
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"You snozed... you losed."
"You sleeped... you weeped."
"You nappa... you get slappa."
"You slumber... a cucumber."
"You catch up on some zeds... you get outta my heads."
"You slumber... ham-BURGER! I don' wanna talk 'bout nuttin else."
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Yeah any help is welcome
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If I recall correctly, you can download the txt file direct from FimFic by hitting a download button to the right of the chapter word count.